Shadow Puppet Storyteller

My Strengths

You always read: Do What You Love, Then Work Will Be A Joy. I'm a thinker, big time. I'd like to note that I've been thinking, in a long, let's say casually drawn-out way, all my life. I can tell you my strengths. So all the strengths I can attribute to myself form a clear picture of the ideal job - right? I've spent 21 years working. Nothing has been completely torturous, but no specific job function has brought ultimate glee either. Journey with me now on this path of reflection.

My work generally has provided support to other people's work. Since Jr. High School, maybe earlier in unspoken ways, I've filled the old fashioned "Gal Friday" role. I like to help people. I do like finishing other people's sentences before they can, or come up with some fact that connects to their topic. It shows my intuitiveness, but sometimes it's just an eavsedropping skill.

Along those lines, I've always been comfortable with those older than me. I communicate with maturity, I guess you could say. Hanging out with my peers or those younger than me has always taken more effort, and the desire to be "in" only exerted itself if there was a level of importance that older people were acknowleding in it.

I'm a problem solver, but I rarely make snap decisions. I can be persuasive, but moreso through my writing than in talking. Yet I prefer to present my arguements one-on-one rather than to a crowd.

I collect facts, or keep something with potential for someone in mind; then I try to think of ways to pass on the knowledge. This is one area where I imagine my "black gold" is just waiting beneath the surface. The thought of passing on the knowledge excites me, but I do not always work at implementing an actual forum for it. Many ideas stay locked away.

I'm positively persistent. I'll always keep looking for an answer or an action long after I've been told to leave it alone. It may be annoying for some that I do that, however, I'll still count it as a strength every time.

Surely there's more strengths I can demonstrate, just competencies in topics like English and math get questioned. We all have varying results (day-to-day) in how well any one of us can utilize the general knowledge provided to us.

Pointing out these strengths is my excercise to understand my recent interest in training for a better paying job. I seriously considered appling for a job I have almost no practical background in - a Job Developer. From there, I started looking at the field of Occupational Therapy. I'm sorting through what statements I can make to validate my leap of faith that says it's possible.

I always stare up in the sky and I can worry about the fall to Earth later. Maybe that's a start of the weakness side of it.